How important is a CPU Coller

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stickroad

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• Jan 1, 2007

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Hello, ive heard many people say that the CPU Cooler and Heat sink that comes with the Core 2 Duo chips is crap, is it really that bad?

 

nd4spdbh2

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• Jan 1, 2007

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stickroad said:

Hello, ive heard many people say that the CPU Cooler and Heat sink that comes with the Core 2 Duo chips is crap, is it really that bad?

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for overclocking yes.. but if your planning on just keeping it at stock clocks... the stock heatsink works fine.. heck they give you the heat sink and if you run everything stock nothing should heat up enough to cause probs. its pretty loud tho.

 

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• Jan 1, 2007

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use the stock cooler only if you plan on keeping the voltage and clock stock. Once you start raising the Mhz and voltage the temps really shoot up.

 

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• Jan 1, 2007

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The stock cooler works fine for default speed or mild overclocks, but once you start pushing the O/C and especially when you have to add extra vcore, then the stock cooler is no longer adequate.

 

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• Jan 1, 2007

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I've heard of many people using the stock cooler to get up to 3.2Ghz with the E6400 (400Mhz FSB and stock volts). Yes, the stock CPU is pretty bad, but not unusable. Unless you have to increase voltage, it's fine.

 

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• Jan 1, 2007

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If you plan to overclock then get an aftermarket cooler. It's not worth the risk to use the stock one.